Good Bye Fundy, Hello Nova Scotia

Rissers Beach

             How is it that a 5 hour drive takes us 7 hours?  We made great time packing up this morning.  It took us about 2 hours to pack up and get back on the road.  We actually hit the road by 9:00, an hour before I thought we would.  However, I learned a valuable lesson, always add time to what the GPS says when driving on the East Coast.  The GPS fails to take into account the very cautious driver on a 2 lane highway.  The speed limit was 80 km/hr and this lady was doing 60.  There is nowhere to pass and towing the trailer makes it about impossible anyways.  So that slowed us down.  Plus we decided to stop in Moncton to grab a bite to eat which turned into a Walmart stop and $200 later we were back on the road.

            When I was in Florida in March we had some trouble with the GPS not recognizing certain roads.  I figured I could deal with that once in a while.  However, out here is seems to happen often.  It didn’t recognize a new highway in Moncton which took us off route and through a construction zone (fun) and then it really messed up near Halifax.  Out came the paper maps and finally we arrived at Rissers Beach at 4:00.

our campsite

            Personally, I am not that impressed.  We are camping right on the ocean and it is very cool (60 degrees).  The sites here are nice however we don’t have any services.  I mean like water and electricity.  3 years ago I wouldn’t have batted an eye but now that I have experienced the convenience of a camper, I feel lost.  So we are dry camping (running electricity of marine battery and filling water reservoir manually).  Of course, no WiFi or cellphone so I will have to stop somewhere tomorrow to upload this. 

            The kids are having a blast at the playground as I write this it is 9:00 and still very light.  I am going to get them as we have a long day tomorrow, plus they have regular journal writing every night.  They may even do a blog entry one night. 

Emily in the Atlantic

            We are going to Lunenburg tomorrow and possibly Halifax.  We are playing with the idea of cutting this leg shorter to have more time in Cape Breton.  We’ll see how tomorrow goes.